PML-N chooses against using an anti-establishment stance
LONDON: In order to minimise unneeded distraction, the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has chosen in principle to focus its narrative on Pakistan’s economic recovery rather than flaunt the anti-establishment narrative.
The crucial choice in this matter was made during a number of meetings in London. Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, Ishaq Dar, Malik Ahmed Khan, Talal Chaudhary, Atta Tarar, and others participated in these meetings.
The PML-N will focus on the economy, governance, and public issues when Nawaz returns to Pakistan in three weeks rather than anything that smacks of retaliation or a conflict with any institution, especially the military establishment. Senior PML-N figures have stated that Pakistan’s problems are so serious and difficult that conflict with
That doesn’t imply, according to the sources, that the leader of the PML-N party or the organisation would give up on naming and humiliating the true offenders, who include General Faiz, General Bajwa, Saqib Nisar, Azmat Saeed Sheikh, Asif Saeed Khosa, Umar Atta Bandial, Ijazul Ahsan, and Imran Khan. Nawaz and his comrades continue to hold firmly to the notion that a number of persons conspired and collaborated to put the PTI in power in 2018. According to insiders who attended these talks, Nawaz and his colleagues will continue to hold these individuals responsible for the current state of disarray and for pausing Pakistan’s economic progress.
Shehbaz Sharif arrived in London in August and stayed until the middle of September, a period of almost a month. He headed out
However, the party acknowledged in the London meetings that if the emphasis was placed on holding these people accountable, then all of the attention would be deflected, and a persistent environment of conflict would not benefit PML-N in any way. The source claimed that the three-time premier and his colleagues still feel betrayed by the military establishment for harming Pakistan and manipulating the 2018 elections to install Imran Khan as president, but they also believe that so much damage has been done that only a plan for the future can inspire optimism and hope, and that focusing on the past grievances and seeking retribution will cause a spin around the PML-N from which it will not emerge unscathed.
Fewer than two or three hawks
The PML-N leader, according to party insiders, has no doubts about his convictions that the establishment and the judiciary conspired to remove him from power in 2017 at a time when he was strong and appeared to be winning the 2018 elections easily, but was instead ousted by the judges on Iqama in highly contentious circumstances. Everyone around him has cautioned him to consider the future and avoid taking any actions that might provoke another conflict between his party and the influential factions. Nawaz has approved his trusted people to publicise the consensus view in the media at this point since he agrees with it.
